Recover deleted files with Recuva

Recuva is a free of charge data recovery application designed to recover files that have been deleted by accident or by other causes like viruses, bugs, crashes and so on.

After installing the program, you’ll simply have to run an user-friendly Wizard, which will ask you questions like What sort of files are you trying to recover? or Where were the files? and so on. Recuva will look for the files that match your criteria.

After a few minutes or seconds, depending on the location that you have selected, you’ll see the deleted files that Recuva has found. Unfortunately, some of the files may be unrecoverable or in a very poor state because some other data has been written over them.

Recuva screenshot

At this stage, all you have to do is select the deleted files that you want to be recovered and click the Recover… button. Save the file(s) where you wish and you’re done!

Pros & Cons
Very easy to use and a slick interface
It’s free and it does recover your deleted files.
If you run the default installation, the program will also install the Yahoo! Toolbar. If you don’t want this, you can uncheck the Install optional Yahoo! Toolbar in the Install Options screen.

What’s new in version 1.21.373 of Recuva?

• Improved recovery of orphaned JPG images in FAT32.
• The launch wizard button has been fixed.
• The scan canceling has been improved on large files.
• Fixed a bug that caused Wizard icons to not be displayed in 16 bit color.
• Checking for updates is now included in the tab-stop.
• Some minor UI problems have been corrected.

The download is about 2.23MB. Available for Windows 98/2000/2003/XP/Vista.

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